Writings

Sisters Academy – Education for the Future – I DO ART has created a publication on Sisters Academy containing the an artistic statement from Gry Worre Hallberg, The Sensuous Society Manifesto, photos from Sisters Academy manifestations, The Poetic Self exercise, notes and objects from The Archive and beyond. Can be purchased here. 2017

The Sensuous Society – Visions of the Now is an artistic research project initiated by Anna Lundh, containing a contribution from from Gry Worre Hallberg, the chapter ‘The Sensuous Society’. More information can be found here. 2017

Dome of Visions – Experiments Towards Sustainable Futures– Book about the experiment Dome of Visions, providing an insight into the thoughts and visions that lie behind the project. Can be purchased here and here. 2016

Experiencing everyday life anew – An article that represents a voice within the terminology of experience economy that seeks to unfold experiences as a potential intervention into the capital system that will ultimately bring us to the potentially new – A Sensuous society. In the anthology Handbook on Experience Economy, 2013.

Embodiment of The Mystery– An article on how a new tendency within performance that I term live and relational fictional parallel-universes celebrates the atmospheric landscapes of filmmaker David Lynch and embodies mystery. In the anthology Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks, 2013

Sensuous society – An article on Sensuous society written from the premise of the editor Mark Ellis – The writers compiled in this anthology have presented responses to the notion of a world without light as a metaphor for the society in which we exist. In the anthology Black Clouds, 2013

Theatre-in-Business – Udfordringer og potentialer– An anthology on the intervention of arts in business co-edited and article contribution by me with my fellow transitionaries in T-in-B :: Staging Transitions. Can be purchased here. 2011:-

Talks

REPORTS

At turde er at turde igen

An examination of how courage can be strengthened through performative practice and in which ways a focus on performativity can enhance and secure a more stable learning. The dissertation considers philosophical, psychological, collective, relational and phenomenological theories of art and courage in order to define courage in performativity and to create a method of practicing a more couragous approach to the practice. Ellen Flyvbjerg draws on her personal experiences from Sisters Academy #3 – The Boarding School in her research.

In their thesis Emilie Dipo Zimmermann and Carina M. E. Hammer investigate how current training initiatives are organizing to prepare participants for the creative economy. They use Sisters Academy as one of three cases. The thesis suggests that a framework towards training that can be used as an inspiration for practices and re-thinking training towards preparing the future worker for the creative economy.

Morten Roneklint Ellehauge accounts for his view on the aesthetic dimension and his ambition to prioritise the sensuous at the STU school Fremtidslinjen in collaboration with Sisters Hope through The Takeover-format.

In his Bachelor thesis Mikkel Dahlin Bojesen examines how the aesthetic dimension can create a foundation for an alternative and sustainable line of thought concerning education. He uses his first hand experience in Sisters Academy as a point of departure and undertakes an analysis of the critical theory that supports the aesthetic dimension. He argues that sensuousness and the aesthetic dimension can create a vital foundation for learning and education. He concludes that the repression of capitalist society is creating one dimensional human beings, and that the aesthetics needs to be the core of educational thinking, to create a playful life value for the individual.

Maja Ravn Christiansen examines the educational ideal of Sisters Academy – The Boarding School. She analyses the use of pedagogical and dramaturgical means to affect the participants. The use of theatricality, transformative potential and the framing of the manifestation are investigated. Christiansen view the educational ideal through the lens of Friederich Schiller’s aesthetic education of man and Jacques Rancière’s intellectual emancipation.

Diplomarbeit
In the Master Thesis “Diplomarbeit” Claudia Lomoschitz highlights Sisters Hope and the large-scale project Sisters Academy as an initiative that explores performative knowledge production. This is in continuation of the thesis’ main focus; new performative ways of generating and transferring bodily knowledge. The shift from rational, text based knowledge forms towards a bodily practical knowledge highlighted artistic practices and their forms of knowledge production.

Teaterteori og poetik
In these two papers Katrine Koppelgaard and Louise Bruun Hansen investigates respectively the work of Sisters Hope and Cantabile 2. Their research is based on three joint collaborative work-days between the groups in Stege, Møn with the purpose of inspiring each other and exchanging experience and finding and unfolding related and different elements of their poetics. Same but not the same.
Koppelgaard focuses on the performativity and theatricality in Sisters Hope and Hansen explores the perception of art of Cantabile 2.

This is a time of alchemy, and we are always right at the breaking point of bursting into the new. In this intersection of different modes of knowledge productions, we hope to offer a process in which you will contribute and sense your own visions and styles of thought in the flames of their expression.